Virginia Madsen Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I am tone deaf.
-
A lot of actors in my age bracket look at being still standing as pretty good.
-
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
-
There's a system in place in Nashville, and for a long time, I was trapped in this idea that the only way to do it was to come to town, get a record deal, and do it the way they say. And that system works. But it caters to a specific kind of artist, and I didn't necessarily fit that mold.
-
Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.
-
But I love the hot sweat. I think overheating onstage is invigorating. It's better than being comfortable. I think being comfortable is the death of a show.
-
When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
-
My father was a politician, and a very important politician, and one of the leaders of the Iraqi Democratic Party, who believed in progress.
-
I was a dancer, and my father was a dancer, so I really grew up in that environment.
-
You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.
-
Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
-
I'd rather go to sleep than find a girl.
-
I'm like an eight year old with the dressing-up box. I have the luxury of being able to change on a whim.
-
I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.
-
You don't pick who you fall in love with. There are so few people to love. It's hard for one adult to even like another. Almost impossible.
-
It's basically the same, just darker.
-
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.
-
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
-
When you compete with a person, you only have to be as good or better than the person to win. If you compete with yourself, there is no limitation to how good you can be.
-
Your body is the ground and metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopedia, your life story. Everything that happens to you is stored and reflected in your body. In the marriage of flesh and spirit divorce is impossible.
-
I tend to look for a great script.
